Toilet and towel paper roll and fixture.



A. J. LEWTHWAITE & G. W. MORDEN.

TOILET AND TOWEL PAPER ROLL AND FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1913.

Patented Jan. 27, 191i WITNESSES: a u 0 u INVENTORS A 4M Chas.W./Y7oraen.

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ALEXANDER J. LEWTHWAITE AND CHARLES W. MORDEN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNORS TO CROWN COLUMBIA PAPER COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, A

CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

TOILET AND TOWEL PAPER ROLL AND FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 27, 1 91 4.

Application filed March 19, 1913. Serial No. 755,563.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALEXANDER J. LEWTI-IWAITE and CHARLES W. MORDEN, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of Portland, county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toilet and Towel Paper Rolls and Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to fixtures for holding toilet or towel paper put up in the form of oval rolls, and our invention has for its object the providing of a fixture comprising a housing which incloses the roll of paper and so holds the same that there will be no portion of the paper hanging exposed below the fixture; furthermore, we provide for the convenient insertion of the roll in the fixture, also so arrange the holding means that the paper may be torn from the roll sheet by sheet only; and in connection with these features we provide a paper roll formed of an endless strip divided by transverse slits into sheets so that when the roll is secured in the fixture the individual sheets may be readily separated, but the paper can be consumed sheet by sheet only, whereby waste is avoided.

In order to understand these and incidental features of our invention, it will be necessary to describe the details entering into the construction of both the fixture and the paper roll.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of the housing of our fixture; Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the housing taken approximately on the line 2-2 in Figs. 3 and 4:; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section taken approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4. is a longitudinal horizontal cross-section taken approximately on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 shows a sectional view of the top part of our case in similar manner as in Fig. 8, but here the case is shown as made with two integral rest-raining lugs instead of only one.

Our fixture comprises a housing, a, preferably closed on four sides and the top, the front wall of the housing having a hand opening I). On the interior at the top of the housing is provided a restraining lug 0. In the housing is removably secured a core plate (I, which is provided with a springcontrolled latch e, and a 111 f. The side, a, of the housing a is provided with a centrally located slot 4), to accommodate the intrusion of the lug f of the core-plate d. Said lug is made of some length so as to hold the core-plate from rotating in the housing. The side, o of the housing, a, is made with a slot w,'to accommodate the intrusion of the spring latch bar 6. The upper end of this slot w is made with an inclined portion 10' for the purpose of giving a cam movement to the spring latch e. A deeper cavity e0 at the end of said inclined portion, acts as a socket into which the bar of the spring latch bolt will be projected so as to lock the core-plate in its correct position until released by the actuation of said spring latch, as indicated in the broken lines of Fig. 3. The side walls are also provided with inspection orifices as g. It is convenient to make the core-plate (Z with a restraining lug it. Such restraining lug may also be provided as an integral part of the top of the housing, as shown at h in Fig. 6.

i are holes in the core-plate (Z, providing, as usual, for lightening and economy of metal used.

The housing of our fixture is secured to the wall 7.; by screws 7', 7".

The paper roll P. used in connection with our fixture, must be specially adapted to such use. To this end the top of the roll is provided with V-shaped edge-slits, as Z, Z, and with elongated slits, as m, m, n, the axes of which are located in parallel lines, of which one line is alined approximately with the axis of said edge-slits, and the other line is located in front of said axis. Thus, as will be noticed in Fig. 4, the slot 91 is alined with the axes of the slits Z, Z. and the slits, m, m, are located in a line lying some distance in front of the axis of the slit 11.. Furthermore, as will be noticed, the ends of the slits, m, overlap the ends of the edge-slits Z, and the slit n. This construction of paper roll is essential in order to insure that the individual sheets may be readily detached from the roll. The roll is provided with the usual paper core 0. The oval roll is placed on the core-plate d, and before the latter is inserted in the housing of the 4 in Fi 6.

fixture, the outer end sheet is detached from the paper roll in the first instance. When the first sheet is removed, such sheet, in the act of removing, will be torn loose from the next sheet in the manner indicated by the broken lines, .9, in Fig. 4. The end 9 of such next sheet of paper will remain in place notwithstanding the tearing loose of the preceding sheet, because the act of so tearing loose will cause a strain only in the direction pointed by the arrow 6 in Fig. 4. When the subsequent sheet is to be removed this is readily done by simply pulling down the detaching ends 9 of the outer sheet of the paperroll, and until such end hangs below the housing, when a pull on said sheet will tear it loose from the subsequent sheet in the same manner as already described.

As is apparent from the description of the operation of our fixture, the detached end 9 of the outermost sheet remains in place until the last sheet of the paper roll has'been removed from the paper core 0.

It is more convenient to provide two restraining lugs, as c, it, the latter of these may be an integral part of the core plate 03. This is a construction which may be preferred, since it assures the proper centering of the paper roll P. However, the restraining lug it may, if preferred, be omitted from the core (Z and provided on the interior and at the top of the housing a, as shown at It When so constructed it facilitate the proper positioning of the paper roll P by making the restraining lug h with the bevel edges both at t and u, so as facilitate the insertion of such edges in the related edge slit of the paper roll.

tion of a housing and a coreeplate removably inserted therein, the housing and the coreplate having respectively a lug, such lugs being alined with each other and located for insertion in corresponding cut-out. portions at the edges of the top of the paper roll inserted in such fixture.

x 3. In a fixture for paper roll, the combination of a housing and a core-plate removably inserted therein, the fixture being provided with longitudinally extending lugs alined with each other and located for insertion in corresponding cut-out portions at the edges of the top of the paper inserted in said fixture.

4. In a fixture for paper roll, the combination of a housing and a core-plate removably inserted therein, the housing and the core-plate being respectively provided with longitudinally extending lugs, and such lugs being alined with each other and located for insertion in corresponding cut-out portions at the edges of the top of the paper roll inserted in said fixture.

A. J. LEWTHWAITE. CHARLES W. MORDEN. Witnesses:

CECIL LONG, WM. C. SCHMIDT. 

